I have written about Denis Villeneuve for some years now, remarking that no other director is given so much money to waste on beautiful spectacles. This might do us honor. Villeneuve is the favored artist of the digital/AI era (Blade Runner 2049 could be a computer game) and yet he cannot make his studios a profit on his blockbusters. Everyone knows his movies are better than Marvel, but they somehow fail to win over enough of the audience, even with the full support of major studio advertising and devoted fans on social media.
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